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Report: TikTok Used Monitoring Techniques Banned by Google to Acquire Person Knowledge

A latest report from the Wall Road Journal alleges that the Chinese language-owned social media app TikTok circumvented a privateness safeguard in Google's Android working system to gather consumer knowledge.
A recent report from the Wall Street Journal alleges that the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok circumvented a privacy safeguard in Google's Android operating system to collect user data.

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